Top German actors Burghart Klaussner (The White Ribbon) and Ronald Zehrfeld (Barbara, Phoenix) star in this riveting historical thriller, which chronicles the herculean efforts of German district attorney Fritz Bauer to bring Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann to justice.

Few figures encapsulate the conflicted
character of postwar Germany better than
Fritz Bauer, the Attorney General who was
instrumental in bringing the elusive Adolph
Eichmann to trial in Israel. THE PEOPLE
vs. FRITZ BAUER is both a portrait of this
complex man and a riveting historical
thriller that chronicles the Herculean efforts
and tremendous risks undertaken en route
to apprehending the chief engineer of the
Nazis' Final Solution.

It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under
the economic miracle, Germany grows
increasingly apathetic about confronting the
horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz
Bauer (Burghart Klaussner) doggedly devotes
his energies to bringing the Third Reich to
justice. One day Bauer receives a letter from
Argentina, written by a man who is certain
that his daughter is dating the son of Adolph
Eichmann. Excited by the promising lead,
and mistrustful of a corrupt judiciary system
where Nazis still lurk, Bauer journeys
to Jerusalem to seek alliance with Mossad,
the Israeli secret service. To do so is treason
— yet committing treason is the only way
Bauer can serve his country.

Featuring deeply textured performances
from Klaussner (The White Ribbon) and
Ronald Zehrfeld (Barbara, Phoenix), and
propulsive direction by Lars Kraume (The
Coming Days), THE PEOPLE vs. FRITZ
BAUER transports us to a time when
much of the world was eager to forget the
atrocities of the Second World War, despite
the fact that many of the perpetrators
remained at large. But make no mistake:
it is also a film about the world of today,
where justice continues to be undermined
by economic interests.